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Technology Review- Top 50 Most Innovative Companies 2011

For the March/April 2011 issue, Technology Review did a piece on the top 50 most innovative companies of 2011. Innovation can be tricky to define. But let us not battle like nerds over the minutia. To prevent trolls* from blasting a Time of the Tech produced list, we give you the top fifty innovative companies of 2011 list from Technology Review, MIT's world famous magazine:

A123 Systems

Akamai

Amazon.com

Amyris

Apple

Applied Materials

ARM Holdings

Complete Genomics

First Solar

Geron

Goldwind Science and Technology

Google

HTC

IBM

iRobot

Life Technologies

Netflix

Nissan

Novartis

Pacific Biosciences

Roche

Siemens

Suntech

Toyota

Private Companies

American Superconductor

BIND Biosciences

BrightSource Energy

Calxeda

Cellular Dynamics International

Claros Diagnostics

Cotendo

Crowdcast

eSolar

Facebook

Groupon

Joule Unlimited

Lattice Power

Layar

Lyric Semiconductor

Novomer

PrimeSense

Serious Materials

Silver Spring Networks

SpaceX

Square

Synthetic Genomics

1366 Technologies

Twitter

Ushahidi

Zynga

Sorry for the format of the long list. As expected, many of these companies are written about in our blog. One omission that does not puzzle me, but might puzzle others, is the omission of Microsoft. While Microsoft does have innovative products like Xbox Live and Xbox Kinect, its portfolio is filled with the "status quo" (i.e., Windows, Office). Microsoft Windows and Office were innovative, back in the 1990's, too bad it's 2012. While Microsoft Windows and Office are great, that is not sufficient to say they are innovative. And if Microsoft wants to be around ten years from today, they have to start innovating.

For the full article from Technology Review, "cliky here".*Time of the Tech is still waiting for its first trolls.

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